No Place Like & Other Short Stories by Southern African Women Writers

This selection brings together an extraordinary range of new and established women writers writing in English over the past fifty years. Dealing with the lives of women from Botswana, Nambia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, the stories are told from perspectives sometimes distant or ironic, sometimes highly intimate and emotionally charged; and, while the larger political landscape in the form of apartheid and the colonial and post-colonial struggle impinges on the experiences of nearly all the women in these stories, it does so in very different ways. There are narratives which etch out landscapes of pain - tales of physical and emotional dislocation, violence an poverty - and then there are tales of love, intimacy and newly discovered paths beckoning freedom.